# Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics' 1983 synth-pop hit picked up a second life on YouTube as a remix engine, powering everything from a terrifying Marilyn Manson cover to bear dance edits and Kahoot mashups. The Annie Lennox refrain became a template for absurd audio swaps that shaped a distinct corner of 2010s YouTube meme culture. ## Origin Eurythmics released "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" as a single on April 10th, 1983, the title track from the duo's second studio album[3]. The song hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and its music video, featuring Annie Lennox in a suit with a cropped orange crop, was in heavy MTV rotation. The official video was uploaded to YouTube on October 25th, 2009 and passed 330 million views, giving remixers a stable, high-quality source clip to work from[1]. The meme-era rework arrived with Marilyn Manson's cover on the 1995 EP "Smells Like Children," the track that broke Manson into mainstream rotation and whose child-abduction imagery got repeatedly cited as one of MTV's scariest videos[2]. - **Platform:** Vinyl single (1983) / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** Eurythmics (song); meme remixers unknown - **Date:** 1983 ## Overview "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is the Eurythmics single that turned into an all-purpose YouTube audio bed for parody edits, cover chains and shock reworks[1]. The pulsing synth line and Annie Lennox refrain became easy to bolt onto animal videos, cartoon animations and gaming footage, which is how a 1983 pop track kept trending on the platform three decades later[3]. The format tends to work one of two ways. Either the song stays intact while unlikely visuals get cut to the beat, as with the WormBur bear dance edit[5], or the vocals get spliced into another sound source, as in the Kahoot lobby music mashup that circulated in 2017[4]. Marilyn Manson's 1995 industrial cover added a horror register that got recycled endlessly in Halloween edits and creepy-fanvid compilations[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)? It's the 1983 Eurythmics synth-pop single that became a long-running YouTube remix format for covers, animal edits and audio mashups[1][3]. ### Where did Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) come from? The song was released on April 10th, 1983 as the title track of the Eurythmics album of the same name and later reappeared on YouTube in 2009 as source material for remixes[1][3]. ### What does Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) mean? As a meme the phrase is shorthand for the Annie Lennox refrain that gets bolted onto unrelated visuals like dancing bears or Kahoot lobby footage for absurd effect[4][5]. ### How do you use Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)? Common formats either cut unrelated footage to the original beat, as with WormBur's bear edit, or splice the vocals over another audio source like the Kahoot quiz loop[4][5]. ### Is Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) still popular? The song is a classic streaming staple whose Marilyn Manson cover and YouTube remixes kept it circulating through the 2010s[2][6]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvVdTlA23w]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9gy6MFrl4]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UimyAzjEyWU]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjJOQ7bBfCs]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_PoJbkebo]() 8. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngpf6UtPn4k]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library